"Salles’ deeply invested filmmaking is remarkable in its grace and naturalism."
— Jessica Kiang, Variety
"I’m Still Here is as affecting and inspiring as any movie this year, domestic or foreign."
— Thelma Adams, AARP Movies for Grownups
"I’m Still Here is a gripping, profoundly touching film with a deep well of pathos. It’s one of Salles’ best."
— David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
"I’m Still Here brilliantly distills an agonizing chapter of a nation’s recent past into a sophisticated portrait of communal endurance."
— Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times
"Walter Salles’s 'I’m Still Here' is an epic within an epic: a teeming family drama contained within the melodrama of a country going insane."
— Ty Burr, Washington Post
"Played wonderfully by Fernanda Torres, Eunice is onscreen almost throughout. She’s at the centre of a family drama and political thriller that really blossoms as a survival story."
— Philip De Semlyen, Time Out
"Heartrending yet never maudlin, I’m Still Here is a humanist drama that, in shining a light on insidious injustice, becomes a balm to warn and warm its audiences in equal measure."
— Manuel Betancourt, AV Club
"By highlighting Eunice’s role as a parent, Salles pushes viewers toward considering the mundanity of living under a dictatorship -- and the gnawing nightmare of lacking control in the face of obvious evil."
— David Sims, The Atlantic
"How often do we get to watch a movie and recognize the unmistakable geniality that adorns a mother’s love? Rarely do we witness a performance that’s so unembellished and yet so memorable and moving."
— Coleman Spilde, Salon.com
"Through Fernanda Torres' formidable presence, the deliberate I'M STILL HERE, a film that locates further meaning in the face of Brazil’s present Far-Right wave, remains in the heart long after the picture fades"
— Robert Daniels, RogerEbert.com
"Mothers and wives often get the short shrift in movies like this, about Big Important Topics decided on by men, but Torres instills Eunice with a deep emotional and practical intelligence that’s beautifully feminine."
— Lindsey Bahr, Associated Press
"Based on a true story, this is a tribute to the strength of a matriarch who doesn’t have time to grieve or feel sorry for herself. She has children to love and protect. 'I’m Still Here' is one of the best films I’ve ever seen about the power of family."
— Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
"The chemistry between all of the Paira family members forms the beating heart of the film, devastating the audience by reminding them how happy they used to be, but promising them that nothing can shatter their sense of spirit, because they are together."
— Emma Kiely, Collider
"Fact-based family dramas don’t come more intense or indelible than Walter Salles’s emotional powerhouse starring Golden Globe best actress winner Fernanda Torres as a Brazilian wife and mother who fights a military dictatorship to save her flesh and blood."
— Peter Travers, ABC News
"We have seen families depicted on screen countless times but the five youngsters who comprise the Paiva household inhabit their roles completely. Salles deliberately blurs the line between documentary and dramatization and creates an exceptional film."
— Leonard Maltin, leonardmaltin.com
"I’m Still Here does not present as a simple polemic about a historical and political situation, and that’s the secret to its global appeal. It’s also a moving portrait of how politics disrupts and reshapes the domestic sphere, and how solidarity, community and love are the only viable path toward living in tragedy. And it warns us to mistrust anyone who tries to erase or rewrite the past."
— Alissa Wilkinson, The New York Times
